诉讼
在内布拉斯加州奥马哈，关于大都会水域法的合宪性的一场长期以来的斗争将在董事会律师韦伯斯特（Webster）律师委员会后立即开始，为谴责古尔德·迪茨（Gould Dietz）的财产做准备，后者在航行之前对于澳大利亚来说，授权律师与此案作斗争。董事会授权诉讼以用于水库目的获得6.15英亩的土地。Dietz先生的土地为每英亩1,500美元，出售不少于20英亩。据说，他的律师将攻击法律的合宪性，并指控董事会无权谴责土地。
加利福尼亚州旧金山的最高法院已将一项决定影响加利福尼亚铁路委员会的管辖权的决定，主要是主要作为土地公司运营的水公司。法院认为，此类公司可能会向特定土地项目以外的一些客户出售水，即使该公司的公司章程可能会这样，他们可能会与之相关联的情况下，而无需将水出售。The decision was in the case of the Del Mar VVater, Light and Power Company of San Diego County versus the Railroad Commission, in which an appeal was taken from the commission’s decision that, inasmuch as the company had sold water to a group of residents of Del Mar, who were not vendees of the South Coast Land Company, with which the water company was tied up by contract, it was a public utility subject to the commission’s ruling. Justice Melvin, who wrote the decision, said: “The serving of water to the seventeen inhabitants of the old town of Del Mar was not sufficient to make the water company a public utility.”
